Yoga s

74 YOGA SŪTRAS
2. The transformation from one life form to another or from
one dimension to another, from one existential status to
another, occurs by saturation of the subtle body with the
energy from that other species, dimension or status that is
to be adopted.
3. The motivating force of the subtle material energy,
whereby it appears to inspire the yogi to endeavor for
liberation, is not used except for the disintegration of
impediments, hence it is compared to a farmer who is not
the real cause of growth of cultivated plants.
4. A yogi is shown how the various parts of his mind and
emotions come into existence because of the involuntary
application of his sense of identity to the subtle material
nature.
5. The one mento-emotional energy is that which is very
much used in numberless different dispersals of energy,
which occur as ideas and images, arising from memory
and sense perception.
6. In that case, only subtle activities which are produced
from linkage to higher realities, are without harmful
emotions; for the others are rooted in the subtle material
nature, which always affords reversals.
7. Due to their effective detachment and their ability to push
the emerging ideas and images back into the pad of the
mind or the territory of the emotions, the cultural activity
of the advanced yogins is neither rewarding nor
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penalizing, but others have three types of such action.
Subsequently for those cultural activities of common
people, there is development according to corresponding
features only, bringing about the manifestation of the
tendencies within the mento-emotional energy, which
causes harmful emotions to be experienced by them.
9. Even though circumstances are separated by status,
location and time, still the impressions which form cultural
activities and the resulting memories, are of one form and
operate on a full time sequence. Thus all who are involved
in worldly life meet with unfavorable circumstances and
are fatigued by favorable occasions, which endorse the
vices which bleed out their sensual energies.
10. Those memories and impressions are primeval without a
beginning. Hope and desire energies are eternal as well.
Thus the proposal which makes sense, recommends a
removal of the individual spirit from this unalterable
environment.